Hi Jacopo, It appears that I misunderstood what you meant, as you wrote:
'However, it would be nice if we could configure this behavior in order to download only the required jars when a release is built'. Best regards, Pierre Smits ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> OFBiz based solutions & services OFBiz Extensions Marketplace http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Jacopo Cappellato < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > this is not what I said, please read what I wrote carefully: the release > package (a source release) will not contain binary jars; the required jars > (external dependencies) will be downloaded at build time by the user; in > this process source files for the external dependencies are not required. > > Jacopo > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Jacopo, > > > > Are we talking binary releases (the convenient downloads) for our > adopters? > > > > Because, according to conventions of the ASF, external libraries are not > > allowed in our source release branches. And that is why we use the Gradle > > solution and have download definitions. So that we don't have that > > (external libraries) when we cut a release. > > > > Best regards,. > > > > Pierre Smits > > > > ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> > > OFBiz based solutions & services > > > > OFBiz Extensions Marketplace > > http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ > > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Jacopo Cappellato < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > This is very useful for development, thanks for sharing the tip Taher. > > > However, it would be nice if we could configure this behavior in order > to > > > download only the required jars when a release is built: we should > > explore > > > this option as well. > > > > > > Jacopo > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Taher Alkhateeb < > > > [email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > > > > > One of the very nice things I discovered a while back is that Gradle > > > > automatically downloads The Source libraries for the jar dependencies > > for > > > > almost all of the libraries. > > > > > > > > This means that you can ctrl-click with your IDE to navigate the > source > > > > code of these external libraries which I find very helpful for > > debugging. > > > > > > > > So just wanted to share that for anyone who might want to take > > advantage > > > of > > > > this > > > > > > > > Taher Alkhateeb > > > > > > > > > >
